Restorer
Maker
Appraiser
Over 20 years of experience making, restoring, and studying string instruments and their bows.
With a focus on preservation, I aim to achieve discreet or invisible restoration work which reverses damage while preserving visual and tonal beauty. Recent projects have included major restorations to instruments by the Brothers Grancino, Giovanni Domenico Scrosati, Andreas Ferdinand Mayr, Leopold Widhalm, Armando Altavilla, Nathaniel Cross, John Betts, and Jan Kulik.
Below images: Crack repairs to a violin by Landolfi
New Making
Drawing on knowledge gained from the close study of the fine old instruments, I aim to reproduce the beauty and charisma of the great instruments. Appropriately aged wood is carefully selected for its acoustic potential, and I use only traditional tools and woodworking techniques for my work.
Pictured: Violin modelled after Alessandro Gagliano. Image courtesy of Tim Wright Fine Violins.
Appraisal Services
With the goal of widening my knowledge and improving my work, I took the decision many years ago to closely study as many old instruments and bows as possible, and the growing expertise emerging from this has gradually developed into an important strand of my work. In recent years I have been involved in finding, appraising and bringing to market fine instruments by Giuseppe Guadagnini, Tomaso Eberle and Pietro Antonio Testore, and bows by Etienne Pajeot, Pierre Simon and James Tubbs. Please see the navigation bar above for more detailed information about this and other aspects of my work.
